{"id":139817,"date":"2025-10-07T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=139817"},"modified":"2025-10-07T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:07:07","slug":"mad-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=139817","title":{"rendered":"Mad Scientist?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was back in the late 1980’s when I got a phone call from world renown photographer John Callahan. \u00a0He said “hey, my name is Callahan and surfer magazine wants me to get a shot of you for their magazine.” \u00a0I thought it was a prank call and almost hung up the phone. \u00a0Come to find out, he was serious. \u00a0My first photo shoot? \u00a0OMG, I was so nervous. \u00a0I told him “ok, let’s go get the shot out at Big Rights because I felt comfortable out there.” \u00a0I made sure my Ben Aipa custom shaped stinger model was cleaned up. \u00a0Gavin Hasegawa did the airbrush. \u00a0I made sure all my sponsors stickers were visible. \u00a0He was swimming in the inside with his fisheye lens so I had to get close to him. \u00a0I take off, fly down the line and right before I get to him, I do a simple turn. \u00a0Click and here it is.<\/p>\n

Want to thank Tony Moniz and Craig Sako for sending me this post because I would have never been able to see it. \u00a0And want to thank my sponsors back then who supported me as an amateur surfer.<\/p>\n

Town and Country Surfboards
\nMango clothing
\nFreestyle Hawaii
\nVictory Wetsuits
\nOakley sunglasses<\/p>\n

I also want to thank my coach Ben Aipa for always believing in me. \u00a0And also want to thank John Callahan who we’ve become friends since that session and traveled the world together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was back in the late 1980’s when I got a phone call from world renown photographer John Callahan. \u00a0He said “hey, my name is Callahan and surfer magazine wants me to get a shot of you for their magazine.” \u00a0I thought it was a prank call and almost hung up the phone. \u00a0Come to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139820,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139817\/revisions\/139820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}